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  1. % of information on Ruling May Impact Google Book Search Case · · Score: 1

    Most thumbnails don't contain 100% of the information of the full size image, which is why they load faster and why Microsoft has set Windows XP to generate and cache them by default, which is one of the things I hate about XP, btw.

  2. Flexible means energy transfer on Flexible Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Inflexible means that all the energy gets quickly trasnferred to the contact points of whatever is inflexible. Flexible means some energy is being stored in the deformation of the flexible material and gets released as the material goes back in shape.

  3. Taking away the current theming engine... on Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    can only be an improvement. As I've said before, I turn off the Themes service on any computer I possess. A service to handle themes? Overkill! Then they locked it to only work with signed themes... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=uxthemes+patc h

  4. Re:they won't on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    We were renting lost from http://familyvideo.com/ and then our library got the DVD's. I've also noticed that dumb people don't get enough money to shell out for the good stuff and the dumber you are the lesser they perceive the difference between somewhat good and really good.

  5. Anime vs. MPAA and RIAA on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    Anime makers seem to not feel the need to complain like the the MPAA and RIAA despite:
    http://animelyrics.com/
    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/
    http://www.jameswong.com/ykproject/core.html

    Then there's the Laziest Men on Mars, which quickly turns up http://kilna.com/ and http://www.kilna.com/D88BE0D2/music
    free downloadable music.

    And there's more like that out there.

    What do we need MPAA and RIAA and their supporters for again?

  6. Looking at change... on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    I said yep, what a concept,

    Current Quote: "If you judiciously use a kilowatt, each villager can have a nighttime."

    So, uh what does each villager have now, and what will they have to give up to get this "nighttime" of which he speaks.

  7. Yeah that too.,.. on China Cracks Down on Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    but you have to start somewhere. I suppose one could start by understanding what liberty is in the first place, and no, I don't mean a dialect of BASIC. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_BASIC)

  8. Re:Simpler plan for MS on $10k Bounty for Critical Windows Flaws · · Score: 1

    Ony thing is, what little I know of everything else, everything else is just as bad but in different aspects. Better the scum you know than the scum you don't.

  9. Re:CCP is out of touch on China Cracks Down on Internet Cafes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd be much happier if the U.S. (and anyone else who dosn't) would learn the difference between capitalism and democracy.

  10. Re:Simpler plan for MS on $10k Bounty for Critical Windows Flaws · · Score: 1

    Oh and now the drive has dropped off the My Computer list and refuses to open. Thank you Microsoft for giving us your buggy OS.

  11. Re:Simpler plan for MS on $10k Bounty for Critical Windows Flaws · · Score: 1

    Some time ago I hit cancel on copying files off of a CD-RW. The copy dialog box is still up... Why?

  12. Re:Look on the bright side on Americans Using Internet 'Just for Fun' · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read the poll? You can't have fun and education at the same time and all uses "for no particular reason" is clearly fun... or something like that... stupid polls and assumptions and nonsense equivivations and abuse of the English and other languages to mean whatever they want it to mean. OF course, they then top it all off by not revealing what the questions actually were that were being asked.
    http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/175/report_displa y.asp
    or maybe it's in the pdf link?
    Nope, just that one question, and it's poorly worded...wait, you mean that the poll consisted of just that one question. Whoever funds these people should demend their funding back. The University of Texas should demand Deborah Fallows return her Ph.D in Linguistics.

  13. Re:The point of such articles on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    Wrong Richard... He's requesting his product placement fee from Richard M. Stallman... Unfottunately I think there's only one of those per story... (sigh)

  14. Reverse Russian Roulette on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    In reverse russian roulette, most of the time you get nothing, poison, or sedative, or a mix of poison or sedative, and sometimes you get something good with a dose of antidote or stimulant. The trick to getting people to continue playing reverse russian roulette is to get the people who get the good dose to say how great it is, while keeping everyone the rest of the time from saying anything, which isn't that hard to do because of the clever way they've been not only incapacitated but tricked into contributing to their own incapacitance.

    Congratulations! Looks like you just happened to get that rare good dose.

  15. Re:No need to detect on Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    You're assuming we care about the "intended" effect, and you are making several additial unwarrented assumptions, not that I am neccesarily not making unwarrented assumptions myself. For blurring, compare frame 1 to frame 3 and if there is a similarity not in frame 2, copy the similarity to frame 2 regardless of the "intended" effect. If we cared about the intentions of the originators, we wouldn't be distributing this thing to begin with. Visit http://www.animemusicvideos.org/ for more information about not caring about the intentions of the originators and how far one can get with that without facing prosecution.

  16. Re:Love is a survival trait. on Love Under a Microscope · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What will really burn your biscuits is whether every human action and drive a result of natural selection or the other way around. They still haven't established which way causality swings. Does spirit yield natural selection or natural selection spirit. An oversimplification, sure, but perhaps less of one than that made by tha scientific establishment.

  17. Leave it to the Scientific Establisment to think on Love Under a Microscope · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they have all the answers. Condition a system so that any unknown variables are in a state of gimbal lock and they begin to think that the variables they observe changing are the only variables. Impose your own notions as to cause and effect, and behold! you have an experiment with repeatable outcomes with little insight as to the nature of reality.

  18. Sister Conspiracy on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    I've pursued the conspiracy angle with my sister's death, and it points to U.S. Government, not Al Quaida. My father, a former presidentially-appointed lawyer with the Immigration Service was the person to ID her body, which was then cremated. My father has procured false identity documents in the past without spending time in prison for it. My father appears to be working currently as a salesperson in the children's department in a Kaufmann's in the Cleveland area, but this may just be a cover job. Hope this helps.

  19. Public school system on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, I mean I go through High School, receive an "Academic Diploma" and then find out about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_points via Gundam Wing. I demand to be supplied with a better free education!

  20. The point of such articles on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    The point of such articles is to say whatever people in control of infomation wants to be said. Say something else and you end up having to work harder to get that information, high-placed words are said to advertisers that competing news outlet is the place to spend ad revenue, and so forth. Censorship works best the more interwoven into the fabric of society it is.

  21. You idiot! on Nvidia Launches High Powered Mobile Graphics Chip · · Score: 1

    http://www.stereo3d.com/hmd.htm is what you really need!

  22. Polarizing on Mario All Grown Up? · · Score: 1

    Every time I enconter the phrase "polarizing (group1) and (group2)" I think that people really need to play with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid

  23. Re:Yeah, but... on FFVII Advent Children Dated · · Score: 1

    "The Spirts Within" was a total train wreck. For what it was, it was good, but what it was, was the second half of a Final Fantasy game done in CGI with overkill realism that seriously overbudget. If they had rendered the entire film in the same CGI quality of FF8 and 9, it would have been less expensive, and the viewers who had played the games would have an easier time relating it to their in-game experiences. If square redid the visuals to FF8-9 quality, I'm fairly certain they'd get people who'd buy that rendition. It would also help if they wrote the beginning of the story and put that out.

  24. But that's precisely the point on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    The people who want certain information released don't want pesky things like actual facts to get into the hands of those who have no business having that information. An oversimplification, sure, but the point is that nobody expects equations in a newspaper because no one wants to put that information there and not the other way around.

  25. No need to detect on Using Watermarks to Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    Just write a program that re-encodes files to a personal set of standards. Example rules: make sure all linear fades are in fact completely linear, parabolic curves fit the parabola exactly... and all quirks watermarks can hide in disappear.